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A New York judge declared a mistrial on a rape charge in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes trial after one juror refused to continue deliberations over an alleged attack in 2013 on actress Jessica Mann.

The jury had found Weinstein guilty of one count of sexual assault and not guilty of another count on Wednesday, but kept deliberating about a final rape charge.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said after the mistrial was announced that his office plans to retry the rape charge again – meaning a third trial for Weinstein in New York.

Thursday's mistrial came after Weinstein's earlier sex crimes conviction in the state was overturned last year, leading to new charges last September.

The rape charge was brought by actress Jessica Mann, who said in a statement on Thursday that she was prepared to testify again.

"I have told the District Attorney I am ready, willing and able to endure this as many times as it takes for justice and accountability to be served," she said. "Today is not the end of my fight."

At a news conference, Bragg said that after the judge declared a mistrial, he "immediately informed the court that we are ready to go forward to trial again on that charge, after conferring with Jessica Mann".

A panel of seven female and five male jurors deliberated for six days in the six-week trial before one juror on Thursday declined to continue discussions.

Deliberations in the trial were plagued with tensions. The jury foreperson brought concerns to the judge earlier this week, saying jurors were "attacking" one another and trying to change his mind.

On Wednesday, he brought more complaints to the judge, indicating that "at least one other juror made comments to the effect of 'I'll meet you outside one day,' and there's yelling and screaming", Judge Curtis Farber told the court.

On Thursday, the foreperson said he would not go back to the jury room to deliberate because he was afraid of others yelling at him, so the judge declared a mistrial on the last rape charge.

"Sometimes jury deliberations become heated. I understand this particular deliberation was more needed than some others," Judge Farber told the 12-person jury, according to US media.

In a statement, a Weinstein spokesperson said his team believed the conviction would be "set aside" due to "gross juror misconduct".

"8 years, dozens of accusers, three trials, one conviction," spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said. "Harvey is disappointed in the single verdict, but hasn't loss faith or the heart to continue fighting to clear his name."

An appeals court overturned Weinstein's previous conviction for sex crimes in New York last April, finding the 73-year-old did not receive a fair trial in 2020 because a judge allowed testimony from women who made allegations against him beyond the charges at hand.

The 2025 trial was based on the testimony of three women – Ms Mann, former television production assistant Miriam Haley, and Polish model Kaja Sokola. All three accused Weinstein of using his power in the entertainment industry to sexually abuse them. Ms Haley and Ms Mann both testified in the first trial against Weinstein, when he was found guilty.

This time, the jury found Weinstein guilty of sexually assaulting Ms Haley, but acquitted him of assaulting Ms Sokola.

The latest conviction is in addition to a 16-year sentence that Weinstein has yet to serve after being convicted of sex crimes in Los Angeles.

Jury deliberations proved tense last week as well, when one juror said others were "shunning" one member of the panel, calling it "playground stuff".

The foreperson also claimed jurors were considering Weinstein's past and other allegations outside the realm of the case in making decisions.

This led the judge to give the jury an instruction about only considering the allegations in the case, and nothing else.

Weinstein – who has cancer and diabetes – stayed at Bellevue Hospital rather than Riker's Island jail during the trial. He sat in a wheelchair for the proceedings.

In total, Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct, assault and rape by more than 100 women. While not all reports resulted in criminal charges, the California conviction means he is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Weinstein and his brother Bob were among the biggest figures in Hollywood, founding Miramax film studio, whose hits included Shakespeare in Love, which won the Oscar for best picture, and Pulp Fiction.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has apologised to the Spanish people after an escalating corruption scandal brought down a senior Socialist party colleague.

Sánchez, who has led Spain since 2018, said there was no such thing as "zero corruption" and he sought to put to distance himself from the affair, ruling out early elections.

Opposition conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo said it was time for Sánchez to resign: "Survival is no longer an option."

A downbeat Sánchez admitted he had been wrong to trust Santos Cerdán, the secretary of his Socialist party, and spoke of his deep disappointment.

Cerdán has been asked to testify in court after a judge suggested he may have acted with former party officials in improperly awarding public contracts in exchange for kickbacks.

He said on Thursday he was stepping down to defend himself in the Supreme Court on 25 June, maintaining he had "never committed a crime nor have I been complicit one".

Despite his seven years in power, Sánchez heads a shaky, minority coalition, secured after the conservative Popular Party won 2023 elections but failed to form a government.

Amid mounting speculation over his own future, he called a news conference in a bid to head off the creeping scandal.

In a statement followed by media questions, he said he knew absolutely nothing about the corruption affair and instead pledged to restructure the leadership of his Socialist PSOE party.

"This is not about me, and it's not about the Socialist party," he said.

His government would continue its "political project", insisting that no new elections would take place until 2027.

However, Sánchez may face pressure from within his coalition, after deputy prime minister Yolanda Díaz from left-wing coalition partner Sumar said she also wanted explanations.

The opposition Popular Party has been buoyed by a weekend rally in the centre of Madrid that attracted tens of thousands of supporters, calling for Sánchez to go under a slogan "mafia or democracy".

Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo appealed to other coalition parties to abandon the prime minister. There was no possible firewall, he told reporters on Thursday: "Corruption is already the hallmark of this government and it must end."

Little over an hour earlier, Sánchez had made his first appearance answering media questions since a national power outage that hit Spain in April.

Speaking from Socialist party (PSOE) national headquarters in Madrid, the prime minister said he had until Thursday morning been persuaded of Santos Cerdán's integrity and wanted to apologise to Spanish citizens.

"There is no such thing as zero corruption, but there must be zero tolerance when it takes place," said Sánchez, the secretary-general of the PSOE. "We shouldn't have trusted him."

Sanchez accuses the opposition of conducting a smear campaign. Like many others he said he had his faults and asked the Spanish people for forgiveness.

He went on to accuse the conservatives of besieging his government on a multitude of issues and followed up his appearance with a message on social media, vowing to continue working for what he had always stood for: "clean politics and democratic renewal."

Sánchez has faced repeated political crises and in April 2024 threatened to stand down.

He took five days to decide on his future, when a court decided to open preliminary proceedings against his wife over allegations surrounding her business dealings.

Then too he called a televised news conference, and in a moment of high drama announced he had decided to stay on in the job.

However, the Cerdán resignation represents a moment of political jeopardy for the prime minister.

Even though he is not personally implicated in the corruption allegations, one of his closest political allies is, along with two other officials.

Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente acted after a lengthy report from Spain's Civil Guard Central Operative Unit concluded that Socialist party organiser Cerdán would have had full knowledge of payments made in the alleged kickbacks scandal.

The judge said the report revealed that evidence suggested Cerdán had acted in collusion with a former Sánchez-era transport minister, José Luis Ábalos, and the minister's ex-adviser Koldo García.

Ábalos lost his job in a reshuffle 2021 and was then forced to resign from the Socialist party as well in 2024. He remains an independent MP.

The police report is based on a number of recordings made by Koldo García over a four-year period and it estimates that the payments were worth €620,000 (£530,000).

Transcripts of some of the recordings appeared in Spanish media on Thursday alleging that Cerdán and Koldo García had discussed payments of substantial sums of money.

Koldo García and José Luis Ábalos have also been called to testify by the judge. The former minister denies he has done anything wrong.

North Korea says it has successfully relaunched its new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, less than a month after it capsized during the first attempted launch, state media reports.

The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, had reacted furiously to the warship'sfailed launchin May, and demanded it be quickly repaired.

At leastfour officials- three shipyard officials and one senior official – have since been arrested over the incident.

State media says the ship has now been fully restored. But given how quickly it has been relaunched, experts are questioning whether the repairs are really complete.

Kim and his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, oversaw Tuesday's launch at Rajin Port in the country's north, according to KCNA, which published photos of them at the event.

This warship is one of two brand new 5,000-ton naval destroyers North Korea has built over the past year and launched since April.

They are now the biggest ships Pyongyang has in its fleet and are capable, in theory, of launching nuclear weapons.

Kim has made it a priority to develop a nuclear-armed navy, and says he plans to build two more of these destroyers in the coming year.

Satellite photos over the past few weeks showed the capsized ship in the harbour, before it was moved to a repair site, and thenbeing refloated in the water, before it was moored at the pier.

According to KCNA, Kim spoke at Friday's event, saying that the initial failed launch had not set back the North's military modernisation programme.

"Soon, enemies will experience how provocative and unpleasant it is to sit and watch the ships of an adversary run rampant on the fringes of sovereign waters," it quoted him as saying.

Nigeria's president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage.

Along with eight other campaigners, Mr Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime.

Many believed the activists were being punished for leading protests against the operations of oil multinationals, particularly Shell, in Nigeria's Ogoniland. Shell has long denied any involvement in the executions.

Though the pardons have been welcomed, some activists and relatives say they do not go far enough.

As well as issuing the pardons on Thursday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu bestowed national honours on Mr Saro-Wiwa and his fellow campaigners, who were known as the Ogoni Nine.

The nine men – Mr Saro-Wiwa, Barinem Kiobel, John Kpuinen, Baribor Bera, Felix Nuate, Paul Levula, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo and Daniel Gbokoo – were among dozens who received the honours as part of Nigeria's annual Democracy Day.

Tinubu said the accolades recognised "heroes" who had made "outstanding contributions " to the nation's democracy.

Responding to the pardons for the Ogoni Nine, campaign groups said they would like the government to take further steps.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), which was formerly led by Mr Saro-Wiwa, called the pardon a "courageous act".

However, Mosop also said that the pardon implies wrongdoing, while in reality "no crime ever took place".

Barinem Kiobel's widow expressed her gratitude to Tinubu for the national honour, but called on the president to "properly declare [her] husband and his compatriots innocent" because a "pardon is not granted to the innocent".

She told the BBC she wants a retrial.

Elsewhere, Amnesty International said clemency falls "far short of the justice the Ogoni Nine need".

More must be done to hold oil companies to account for environmental damage currently occurring in Nigeria, the organisation added.

Mr Saro-Wiwa, who was one of Nigeria's leading authors, led the Ogoni people in peaceful demonstrations against Shell and other oil companies.

Mosop accused the multinational company of polluting the land that locals relied on for their livelihoods.

The Nigerian government responded by brutally cracking down on the protesters. The Ogoni Nine were subsequently found guilty by a secret military tribunal of the murder of four Ogoni chiefs.

Their execution sparked outrage within the international community. It was widely condemned as extrajudicial murder and became a global symbol of the struggle against environmental injustice and repression.

Nigeria was consequently suspended from the Commonwealth group of nations.

Since then, Shell has faced various lawsuits over oil spills and environmental damage in the Niger Delta, the southern region that Ogoniland is a part of.

In 2021 a Dutch court ordered Shell to compensate farmers for spills that contaminated swathes of farmland and fishing waters in the Niger Delta. The company agreed to pay more than a hundred million dollars.

Earlier this year, lawyers representing two Ogoniland communities argued in London's High Court that Shell must take responsibility for oil pollution that occurred between 1989 and 2020.

Shell denies wrongdoing and says spills in the region have been caused by sabotage, theft and illegal refining for which the company says it is not liable.

The case's full trial is set for 2026.

Additional reporting by Chris Ewokor

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One of Europe's largest music festivals is pulling out of Serbia with organisers blaming "undemocratic pressures".

Exit festival will hold its 25th anniversary edition in the country between 10 and 13 July, but said it "will be the last to take place" there.

Organisers say Serbian authorities have cut off government funding for the event and some sponsors have been "forced to withdraw under state pressure".

They say this relates to the festival's support for an ongoingstudent-led anti-corruption protest movementin Serbia.

Provincial officials at the culture secretariat have rejected the allegations, blaming financial pressures for being "unable to provide support".

Held at Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, the festival attracted 200,000 visitors last year.

Exit has its roots in the pro-democracy protest movement which eventually led to the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia's presidential elections in 2000.

That activist tradition has continued, with each year given a theme, ranging from "Stop Human Trafficking" to "Loud and Queer".

Following last November's disaster at Novi Sad railway station – where 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed – students launched protests, and the festival offered its support to them.

This ranged from joining students on protest marches to providing "food, sleeping bags, and other necessities" and publishing messages of support on social media and Exit's website.

Founder Dusan Kovacevic says this has now come at a heavy financial cost for the festival, but that "freedom has no price".

In a statement about the decisionto pull out of Serbia after 25 years, he calls for people to remember Exit "not for its end, but for its unity. For love. For freedom".

It is unclear whether the festival will seek to relocate to a different country, and if so where.

Headline acts over the years have included The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys and The Cure.

Next month, The Prodigy are returning for their sixth appearance at the festival, alongside The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter and French DJ and producer DJ Snake.

Exit has won two European festival of the year awards and grown to become one of the continent's largest multi-day music events.

Daryl Fidelak, who runs a Belgrade-based record label, says the festival has had an immense impact on Serbia's creative scene.

"It's opened the eyes of the international audience, bringing lots of foreigners who might have had a negative – or even no – impression of Serbia," he says.

"Exit has helped Serbia get to a good place with live music and culture, spawning a lot of other festivals, bookers and events."

When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president for a second time in January, he made a promise. "My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier," he told his audience at home and far beyond.

Then, a little more than a hundred days on, during his first foreign tour – which took him to three wealthy Arab states – he boasted that he was making good on that vow. "I will tell you that the world is a much safer place right now," he said in reference to Ukraine. "I think in two or three weeks we can have a much safer place."

But how much progress is the self-styled "world's best peacemaker" really making? Is Trump turning the world into a safer, or a more dangerous, place?

There are many angles to the answer.

It is difficult to ignore the reality on the ground in perhaps the world's two most prominent conflicts.

President Trump boasts that he is the only one who can reach a deal with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – butRussia is now pounding Ukraine with the largest number of drones and missilessince its full-scale invasion in 2022.

And he has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza, but this week staff at the Red Cross Field Hospital say they are receiving the highest number of weapons-wounded patients since they established their clinic more than a year ago.

On other fronts, however, there are some glimmers of light in the dark.

Nuclear talks between the US and Iran are underway, pushed by an American president who insists that he wants to reach a good deal and avert a bad destructive war.

The next round of those talks, mediated by Oman, is expected to take place on Sunday, although there is intense speculation that Israel may be preparing its own military strikes on Iran.

Syria has more of a fighting chance to tackle dangerous internal tensions, as well as deep poverty, after President Trump suddenly announced last month that punishing sanctions on the country would be lifted on the urging of his Saudi ally.

"It's the worst of times and the best of times," David Harland, executive director of the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, told me. "There are now more wars than ever in the world, but more conflicts are on the negotiating table and some are moving forward."

There is truth in Trump's claim that only he can bring some players to talk peace. He is the only world leader that Putin and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, among others, know they need to listen to – or else.

"You bet, they're scared of him," said K. T. Mcfarland, Trump's former deputy national security adviser who will join a BBC World Service debate on whether the president is making the world safer or more dangerous that will be broadcast on Friday.

His motto "peace through strength" rests on his belief that his sheer force of personality, bold threats, and direct telephone calls can end wars. He even said he could end wars in a day – but clearly hasn't.

Trump has, however, pushed Russian and Ukrainian officials back to the negotiating table, but there's been little progress beyond some important prisoner swaps. President Putin shows no signs he is ready to end this grievous war.

Trump's threats of "hell to pay" ultimatums to Hamas, as well as pressure on Israel, helped get a Gaza ceasefire deal over the line in January, even before he was sworn into office on 20 January. But the truce, described by Trump as "epic", collapsed in March.

"He doesn't like to get into the detail," one Arab diplomat told me, underlining the president's preference for quick easy deals in what are deeply complex conflicts.

"We all want deals, but we know deals don't work or don't last, if they're not peace deals, as opposed to end-of-war deals," said Martin Griffiths, a former UN Under-Secretary General who is now the Executive Director of Mediation Group International.

Trump, who prides himself on being the world's disruptor-in-chief, has also dissed the skills of seasoned career diplomats. "They may know the rivers, the mountains, the terrain, but they don't know how to do a deal," he said.

Instead, his preference is to use the deal-makers of his own property world, most of all his golf buddy and former real estate lawyer and investor Steve Witkoff, who is juggling all the tortuous and tricky files on Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and more.

President Trump's Make America Great Again crusade goes beyond individual deals. He has run roughshod through the rules-based world order that forged the foundation for global stability and security in the aftermath of World War II.

His repeated threats to seize control of the Panama Canal, buy Greenland, and turn Canada into the 51st US state have stunned – and scared – capitals the world over.

His steep tariffs imposed on both ally and adversary have unleashed retaliatory taxes and fears of a debilitating global trade war, while also straining age-old international alliances.

But he's also galvanised others, including in the NATO military alliance – whose own chief is now amplifying Washington's order for members to significantly step up their own military spending.

The American president also took credit for a ceasefire brokered between India and Pakistan after days of cross-border strikes between the neighbours last month. The US's belated intervention made a big difference, but many other players pitched in.

His business-oriented "America First" approach has also meant that other conflicts, including the terrible killing fields in Sudan, are not beeping loudly on his own radar.

But warring sides in many regions are now courting him, wielding their mineral wealth and investment potential as a bargaining chip. The president's proposed security-for-minerals deal in war-torn Congo, for example, has provoked a chorus of concern that it doesn't tackle the root causes of the conflict.

"If you could use a mineral deal to end decades of war, then there are countries who would have fixed that already," International Crisis Group President Comfort Ero said.

His administration's cuts to UN aid agencies, and his dismantling of the American aid agency USAID, have also deepened the suffering of displaced and marginalised people in many regions and exacerbates tensions.

And, after only a few months of his second presidency, Trump's frustration with intransigent actors has led him to issue threats to "take a pass" and walk away from conflicts like Ukraine.

"Deals take forever," Martin Griffiths, the former UN Under-Secretary General, told me. "You have to start and you have to stay."

The BBC World Service Debate – Is Donald Trump making the world safer or more dangerous?

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You can watch the debate on the BBC News Channel at21:00BST on Friday 13 Juneand it will be streamed on the BBC News website. It will air on BBC Radio 5Live and World Service radio on Saturday 14 June.

An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that directed the Trump administration to return control of California's National Guard troops back to the state.

The appeals court's decision came hours after a federal judge said Trump's deployment of the troops to Los Angeles to quell immigration raids was illegal.

Trump said he was sending the troops – who are typically under the governor's authority – to stop LA from "burning down" in protests against his immigration crackdown.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and other local officials rejected the move, however, and said it was an unnecessary provocation. The appeals court said it would hold a hearing on Tuesday.

At an earlier federal court hearing, Judge Charles Breyer said the question presented by California's request was whether Trump followed the law set by Congress on the deployment of a state's National Guard.

"He did not," the judge wrote in his decision. "His actions were illegal… He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith."

But the judge stayed the order until Friday afternoon to give the Trump administration time to appeal against it. The administration did so almost immediately after the order was issued.

Newsom posted on social media on Thursday afternoon that "the court just confirmed what we all know — the military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets".

The Trump administration has said it took over California's National Guard to restore order and to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as they swept up people in Los Angeles who were believed to be in the country illegally.

Despite Newsom's objections, Trump ordered a total of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to help quell the unrest. Some of the Guard troops are now authorised to detain people until police can arrest them.

A president last deployed the National Guard without a governor's consent more than 50 years ago – during the civil rights era. It is more common for a governor to activate troops to deal with natural disasters and other emergencies, and then ask for federal assistance.

Before a packed courtroom on Thursday, a justice department attorney told Judge Breyer that Newsom did not need to be consulted when Trump issued his order.

"Governor Newsom was fully aware of this order…he objected to it," Attorney Brett Shumate said. "There is one commander-in-chief of the US armed forces."

"No," Judge Breyer, the younger brother of former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, responded.

"The president isn't the commander -in-chief of the National Guard," he said but added there were times and situations where the president could become the head of the troops.

Breyer, who had donned a light blue bowtie, invoked the Constitution multiple times during the hearing, holding up a booklet copy of the document at one point.

"We're talking about the president exercising his authority. And the president is, of course, limited in his authority," he said. "That's the difference between a constitutional government and King George."

Before the judge's ruling, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth repeatedly refused to say if he would comply with Judge Breyer's order.

"What I can say is we should not have local judges determining foreign policy or national security policy for the country," Hegseth said, speaking at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday.

Hegseth said he would comply with a Supreme Court ruling.

The appeals court decision on late Thursday allows the National Guard troops to remain in Los Angeles as the case makes it way through the courts.

The Trump administration used a law that allows the president to call the National Guard into federal service when a "rebellion" is happening.

But California said in its lawsuit that the protests that have spanned nearly a week in LA – and included more than 300 arrests and the shutting down of a major freeway – did not rise to that level.

"At no point in the past three days has there been a rebellion or an insurrection. Nor have these protests risen to the level of protests or riots that Los Angeles and other major cities have seen at points in the past, including in recent years," the lawsuit read.

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The women crouch down motionless, kneeling between endless rows of fruit bushes, almost hidden from view.

"Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully.

After assuring her that we're not with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been raiding nearby farms and arresting workers over the past week, she straightens her back, rising slightly out of the dirt.

"Have you seen any ICE vans? Are there patrol cars out there?" she asks, still unsure if we can be trusted and she can emerge.

The woman, an undocumented migrant from Mexico, has been picking berries in Oxnard, California since arriving in the US two years ago. It's a town which boasts of being the "strawberry capital of the world".

As her work shift ended on Wednesday, she and her co-workers hid in the fields, waiting to be picked up by a friend and unsure whether it was safe to venture out into the parking lot.

On the previous day, nine farms in the Oxnard area were visited by ICE agents, say local activists, but without search warrants they were denied entry and instead picked up people on the nearby streets, arresting 35.

The workplace raids are part of President Donald Trump's goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day. On the campaign trail he had vowed to deport noncitizens accused of violent crimes, a promise that received widespread support, even among some Hispanics.

But in Los Angeles there was a public backlash and street protests that sometimes turned violent, prompting him to controversially send in the military to the second largest city in the US.

"They treat us like criminals, but we only came here to work and have a better life," says the woman, who left her children behind in Mexico two years ago and hopes to return to them next year.

"We don't want to leave the house anymore. We don't want to go to the store. We're afraid they'll catch us."

Large-scale raids on workplaces in California's agricultural heartland haven't been seen for the last 15 years, says Lucas Zucker, a community organiser in California's Central Coast region.

But that seems to have changed this past week.

"They are just sweeping through immigrant communities like Oxnard indiscriminately, looking for anyone they can find to meet their politically-driven quotas," he says.

More than 40% of US farmworkers are undocumented immigrants,according to a 2022 report by the US Department of Agriculture. In California, more than 75% are undocumented,according to the University of California, Merced.

Raids at farms and businesses that rely on the agricultural industry throughout California, and across the entire country, have ramped up this month.

The arrests have raised fears of shortages to America's food supply, if the migrants are arrested or forced into hiding, afraid to come to work.

This impact has not been lost on the White House. Despite winning the election decisively after promising mass deportations, Trump on Thursday acknowledged the tough time his crackdown is inflicting on the farming sector.

"Our farmers are being hurt badly. You know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great."

In April, he said that some migrants may be authorised to continue working in the US, on the condition that they have a formal recommendation from their employer and that they first leave the US.

The result of one raid on Tuesday in Oxnard, a municipality 60 miles (100km) from downtown Los Angeles, can be seen in a video posted to Instagram by a local flower merchant.

The short clip showsa man running in a vast field of crops, through a haze of thick morning fog, as agents give chase on foot and in trucks. He is then seen falling to the ground, among the rows of plants, as agents move to arrest him.

When the BBC visited Oxnard on Wednesday, a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck was seen parked outside an organic produce trucking company. A security guard insisted their visit was not related to immigration, saying: "This is not ICE. We would never let ICE in here."

Many tractors and trucks sat idle surrounded by acres of farmland, as an unknown number of workers chose to stay home.

The impact is having ripple effects on other businesses. Watching from her family's Mexican restaurant, Raquel Pérez saw masked CBP agents attempt to enter Boskovich Farms, a vegetable and herb packing facility across the street.

Now her business, Casa Grande Cafe, has only one customer during the normally busy lunch hour, because farm workers have stayed home. She estimates that at least half of her normal clientele are undocumented.

"No one came in today," says her mother, Paula Pérez. "We're all on edge."

Raquel says she's more concerned now for the future of the restaurant – serving chilaquiles, flan, and other Mexican delicacies – than she was during Covid, when her customers continued their work as usual, keeping the nation supplied with fresh foods.

"They don't realise the domino effect this is going to have," she says about the raids. Other companies around her that rely on agriculture have already been affected. The adjacent business buying and selling wooden pallets is closed, and a local car mechanic too.

"If the strawberries or vegetables aren't picked, that means there's gonna be nothing coming into the packing houses. Which means there's not gonna be no trucks to take the stuff."

A migrant selling strawberries from his truck on the side of the road says the raids have already had a devastating effect – on both his business and his hopes of becoming a legal resident of the US.

"Fewer people are going out for trips, and they buy less from me," says Óscar, who comes from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala and, while undocumented himself, has children who were born in the US.

"I'm scared, but I can't stop going out to work. I have to provide for my family," he says.

Óscar says he has been working to finalise his immigration status, but with ICE agents now waiting outside courthouses for migrants seeking to process paperwork, he's unsure of what to do next.

"There aren't many ways left to be here legally."

The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday's Air India plane crash said he managed to escape the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage.

"I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out," Vishwashkumar Ramesh told Indian state media DD News.

Mr Ramesh, 40, was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787 flight when it went down shortly after take off in Ahmedabad, western India on Thursday.

Air India said all other passengers and crew were killed – including 169 Indian nationals and 52 British nationals. More than 200 bodies have been recovered so far, though it is unclear how many were passengers and how many were from the ground.

Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr Ramesh said the lights inside the aircraft "started flickering" moments after take off.

Within five to 10 seconds, it felt like the plane was "stuck in the air", he said.

"The lights started flickering green and white…suddenly slammed into a building and exploded."

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a building used as accommodation for doctors at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital.

But Mr Ramesh, a businessman from Leicester who has a wife and four-year-old son, said the section he was sitting in landed near the ground and did not make contact with the building.

"When the door broke and I saw there was some space, I tried to get out of there and I did.

"No one could have got out from the opposite side, which was towards the wall, because it crashed there."

The cause of the crash is not yet known. Officials say one black box has been recovered from the crash site, according to news agencies, which will be able to provide further information for investigators.

Video shared on social media showed Mr Ramesh walking towards an ambulance with smoke billowing in the background.

He told the Indian broadcaster he could not believe that he came out of the wreckage alive.

"I saw people dying in front of my eyes – the air hostesses, and two people I saw near me," he said.

"For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too, but when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realised I was alive.

"I still can't believe how I survived. I walked out of the rubble."

Dr Dhaval Gameti, who treated Mr Ramesh, said he was "disorientated, with multiple injuries all over his body", but that he appears to be "out of danger".

On Friday morning, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site before making his way to the hospital to meet injured people including Mr Ramesh, and the families of victims.

A Downing Street spokesman said the Foreign Office had been "in contact with Mr Ramesh this morning to offer consular support".

Mr Ramesh was born in India but has livedin the UK since 2003. His brother, Ajay, was also onboard the plane.

Their cousin, Hiren Kantilal, said that they had been in India for a few months on holiday.

He said the family had spoken to Mr Ramesh on Friday morning, adding that he was able to walk and speak "properly" to them.

"We want to get out as soon as possible and meet… Vishwashkumar," he said.

He added that they were looking for further support from the British government to get to India, which he said they had not yet received.

The BBC has asked the Foreign Office whether it has been in touch with Mr Ramesh's family.

A spokesperson confirmed they have been in contact with Mr Ramesh, and said: "Our consular staff are ready to support families of British Nationals who were on board Air India flight AI171."

Following the crash,theForeign Office set up helplinesfor British nationals in the UK and in India requiring consular assistance, or for those who have concerns for friends or family.

A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India's civil aviation minister said on Friday.

The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed.

All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area less than 60 seconds after take-off on Thursday. An official told the BBC that at least eight people on the ground were also killed.

"The [recovery of the black box] marks an important step forward in the investigation" and will "significantly aid the inquiry" into the disaster, Mr Kinjarapu said.

Planes usually carry two black boxes – small but tough electronic data recorders.

One records flight data, such as altitude and speed. The other records sound from the cockpit, so investigators can hear what the pilots are saying and listen for any unusual noises.

AAIB is leading the inquiry into the cause of the crash, helped by teams from the US and UK. Boeing's chief executive, Kelly Ortberg, said the company was supporting the investigation.

Air India said there were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft when it crashed moments after taking off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 13:39 local time (08:09 GMT).

Flight AI171 was scheduled to land at London's Gatwick Airport at 18:25 BST.

On Friday, the wreckage was still scattered across the crash site, including the blackened wing of the plane, with large pieces of the aircraft stuck in buildings.

Investigators arrived at the scene and crowds were moved further away from the wreckage.

A doctor told the BBC that they are relying on DNA from relatives to identify the victims. A police official at the post-mortem room told the BBC that the remains of six people had been released to families so far, as their relatives were able to identify them based on facial features.

The sole survivor of the crash, British national Vishwashkumar Ramesh, who was in seat 11A on the flight, is still recovering in hospital.

"I still cannot believe how I made it out alive,"he told India's state broadcaster DD Newson Thursday.

"At first, I thought I was going to die. I managed to open my eyes, unfastened my seat belt and tried to exit the plane."

Mr Ramesh, 40, who sustained burn injuries on his left hand, said he saw the aircraft crew and its passengers die in front of his eyes.

Meanwhile, desperate families are still waiting for news of their relatives.

Imtiaz Ali, whose brother Javed and his family were on the flight, said that until he sees his brother's body, he will not believe he has died.

"If I get sad and start crying, then I'll be uncontrollable," he told the BBC.

"No-one will be able to stop me… my heart might burst."

The plane crashed in a residential area called Meghani Nagar and, even though it had just taken off, the impact was severe. Wreckage spread over 200m (656ft), according to responders.

It is still unclear exactly how many were killed on the ground, but the BBC has been told that at least eight people, who were not on the aircraft, have died.

Dr Minakshi Parikh, the dean of the BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, said four of their students died as the plane crashed into buildings on the campus.

"There were also four relatives of our doctors who were on the campus when the aircraft crashed – they too were killed," Dr Parikh said.

"We are relying only on DNA matching to identify them and it is something where we simply cannot rush or afford mistakes.

"We are working with sincerity. We want relatives to understand, and be a bit patient. We want to hand over [the bodies] as soon as possible."

On Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent around 20 minutes at the site of the plane crash.

He did not speak to reporters afterwards but a video posted on his YouTube channel showed him walking around the site and inspecting the debris.

Modi also visited the location of a now-viral image that shows the tail of the crashed plane lodged in a building.

Earlier on Friday, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson also went to the crash site, later describing the visit as "deeply moving".

According to data by tracking website, Flightradar24, the Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 had completed more than 700 flights in the year leading up to the Thursday's disaster.

The Air India plane was 11 years old and its most common routes included flights between Mumbai and Dubai, as well as the capital New Delhi and European destinations such as Milan, Paris and Amsterdam.

The plane had operated 25 flights from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick in the past two years.

India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has ordered additional safety checks on Air India's Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 fleet, describing it as a "preventive measure".